Ethereum’s Holeky Testnet finally reached finality on Monday, almost two weeks after the pectra upgrade went live.
Epoch 119.090 sealed the agreement around 19:00 UTC, with over two -thirds of validators validating the network. An era is a period when a specific number of blocks is completed on blockchain.
Finality that locks transactions that were irreversible within two eras, or approx. 13 minutes, had been absent since February 24 due to a configuration error in the client software, not the pectra upgrade itself.
Restoration efforts in recent weeks enabled this recovery. Developers are now stabilizing nodes and pruning old states to fully revive the test network to Pectra test.
The Sepolia test network, which also ran Pectra, achieved finality, but later faced empty blocks from a defective deposit contract. An attacker took advantage of this by sending zero-token transfers, noticing Ethereum developers, a problem that was later solved by client team.
Pectra upgrade introduces important improvements, such as gas payments in non-eth-tokens, account abstraction and higher effort limits.
